lol....didn't realize the url was so long. Does anyone know if the I300 is capable of a "flash" upgrade of the OS (I think the answer no but one could hope)
Marc is right. You can not upgrade the OS unless Samsung released a flash that advertised specifically to upgrade the OS of the i300.
I asked a few Samsung i300 engineers this same question and was disapointed with the answer. They said "No way!" They would lose phone functionality and with the i330 just around the corner, they we not looking to provide this service. When I asked why they chose an OS that was already replaced before the phone even launched, they said it was because they spent SO long making this phone, that when it was being buiilt around the OS, they only have version 3.5....... to work with. To launch the phone with the newest OS would mean starting over.
ummmm....yeh, I was thinkin we had 4.0.1 on the phone because the desktop is 4.0.1.....too bad.
It appears that Samsung may do the same thing with the 330. With 5.0 not out until maybe 4th quarter, the 330 will probably debut with 4.0 and it will be obsolete within a few months.
One reason that Palm OS 5.0 won't be of any use for legacy devices such as the I-300, the yet-to-be released I-330 and all the other current Palm devices is that it supports a new processor family, the 32-bit ARM (originally seen in the Apple Newton!)
All current Palm devices run Motorola 68000 chips, which also powered the original Macintosh (when introduced in 1984).
So, even if it did work, it would be like running Mac OS X (Unix-based) on an old Mac (or Windows XP/2000 on a 286!)
Different Processors with 4.0 vs 5.0
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